The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents an evening of chamber music in the Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building on Monday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The program will feature Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Tempest Fantasy for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
ONU faculty clarinetist Georg Klaas and colleagues will perform a program of 20th- and 21st-entury chamber music. The program will feature Pamela Ashmore, lecturer in the ONU music department, on piano; Rachel Pinkney, lecturer in the ONU music department, on cello; and special guest violinist from the Toledo Symphony, Merwin Siu.
John G. Acheson, 80, died at 12:37 a.m. on Sunday, September 21, 2014 at Lima Memorial Health System, Lima, Ohio.
He was born on June 3, 1934 in Auglaize County, Ohio to Harold and Verla (Shipp) Acheson, who preceded him in death. On September 24, 1955 he married Margaret Crowe and she survives in Ada, Ohio.
John retired from Chicago Bridge and Iron after 30 years as a welder. He was a member of the Lima Masonic Lodge #205 F&AM. He was a 1952 graduate of Roundhead High School. John served in the US Air Force from 1954-1958. He was a member of the Bethel Church of Christ, Ada, Ohio.
The annual membership drive for the Ada Music Boosters is continuing throughout the fall.
A flyer was mailed to all Ada households in July and the boosters encourage Icon viewers to return it with a contribution towards this year’s fund-raising drive. With the help of the Ada community, the music boosters are able to enhance music education and the performance-based programming for the Ada Exempted Village Schools.
Here's an update on booster project from David Smittle, Music Booster treasurer:
